Ticket-holder.



PATENTED JAN. 21, 1908.

I. E. STUMP.

TICKET HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 26, 1907.

IRA E. STUMP, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO A. W. MARGILETH, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

TIGHT- HOLDER:

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRA E. ST MP, a citizen. of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in ticket-holders designed with special reference for use as a holder for street-car tickets, being adapted to receive and contain an ordinary supply or acket of tickets and automatically feed 't esame in' proper position for the delivery of a single ticket by the thumb of the hand carrying the improved ticket-holder.

The primary object of the invention is to.

produce a generally-improved device of this class which will be exceedingly simple in construction, cheap of manufacture, efiicient in use.

With these ends in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and combination of parts, hereinafter described, illustrated 'in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.-

Referring to the drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1, is a perspective View of the improved holder. Fig. 2, a side view of the same. Fig. 3, a longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 4, a to plan view of the same.- Fig. 5, a rear en view. Fi 6, a top lan view of the removable tic etsupplyolding and feeding-s ring removed from the holder-casing or ox. Fig. 7, a side view of the same. ,Fig. 8, a slmilar View of the same as it appearsde ressed for the reception of a full supply of. tic ets. Fig. 9, a lan view of the blank as it appears before eing formed up into the. holder-casing or box. Fig...10,-a lan view of the blank for the removable tic et-supply-holding and feeding-spring.

.Similar characters ofreference designate like parts throughout all the figures of the drawings.

The improved ticket-holder com rises but two parts, viz.: a holder-casing or ox and a removable ticket-supply-holding and feeding-spring each made up of a single blank of sheet metal 1, and 2, as shown in Figs. 9, and 10, respectively, the blank], being, in the main, of substantially rectangular shape, the central portion 3, as indicated by the dotted lines, being adapted to form the bottom 3,

of the holder-casing of approximately the length and breadth of an ordinary street-car ticket, the wings 4, being adapted to be bent upwardly at right angles to the bottom 3, to form the side walls 4, the marginal ends 5, provided with the oppositely-disposed notched-recesses 5, being adapted to be bent or folded upon themselves to form the reinforced longitudinally-extending ticketretainin -strips 5, with the intermediate thumbl t 6, as shown most clearly in Figs. 1, and 4, said notched recesses 5, forming the beveled ends 5, of the retaining-strips 5, after the latter are formed. One end of the central portion 3, of the blank 1, is provided with an extension 7, provided with rounded sideewings 7*, said extension being adapted to be bent upwardly to form the end wall 7, at the delivery end of the holder-casing, the

side-wings 7 being bent over the ends of the side-walls 4, and, preferably, soldered to the outside of said walls. It will be observed that the end wall 7, is sufficiently less in de th than the-side walls 4, as to provide a t'cliet delivery slot-opening 8, between the upper edge of the end wall 7, and the ends 0 the retaining-strips 5, the depth of said slot-openin 8, corresponding approximately with the t 'ckness of the ticket to be delivered. It will also be observed that the o posite or ticket-supply-receiving-end 9, of

t e holder casing is left entirely open to receive the su plyof tickets and the removable ticket-supp y-holding and feeding-springto be now described.

The packet. or supply of tickets is adapted to be held in proper position for insertion into the holder-casing through the receiving end 9, and, when so inserted, the tickets are properly positioned and fed for delivery one at a time, through the slot-opening 8, by the frictional engagement otthe thumb with the upper ticket through the thumb-slot 6, by means of a removable ticket-supply-holding and feeding-spring 10, made'up of a single blank or strip of sheet metal as shown in Fig. 10, one end of the strip being bent upwardly at right angles to the bottom portion 11, thereof, forming an end-wall 12, adapted to fit within the receiving-end 9, of the holdercasing, and terminating in an inwardly-extending ticket-holding-flange 13, the other or major portion of the strip being bent u on itself forming the reversely-folded spr1ng members'14, and 15, the rear bend 15, at the rear portion of the upper member 15,

being directly beneath the flange 13, so that when the s ring-members are depressed to receive a in supply of tickets, as shown in Fig. 8, the rear end of the packet may be inserted and securely pinched and retained between the rear portion or bend of the up- 'per spring-member and the ticket-holdingflange 13.. When the s ring-members-are so depressed and the pac etof tickets so retamed, it will beobserved that a very slight forward movement of the upper ticket bythe thumb in the act of ejectment will slip the rear end thereof out from under the-holding-' flange 13 causin the latter tosecurely enga e the rear en of the next or succeeding tic et and preventing any movement of the same by the friction of the upper moving ticket.

vention w From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the opfration and advantages of myiin- 1 be readily understood. Having thus described my invention with .out having attempted to set forth all'the forms in which it may be made, or all the modes of its use, I declare that what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,-

,1. A ticket-holder, com rising a holder casing made up of a sing e blank of sheet metal forming a bottomprovided with side-. walls havin their upper ed es'bent upon themselves Forming reinforced ticket-retaining-stri s leaving an intermediate thumbslot an an end wall having side-wings-ben tover the ends ofsaid side-walls, said end-wall being of less depth than said side-walls and affording aticket-delivery slot-openin in:

termediate its upper edge and the en s of said ticket-retain1ng-strips, and a ticket-supply-holding and feeding-spring removably-' mounted in said holder-casing and comprising a single strip of sheet metal forming a bottom portion provided with an end-wall terminating in a ticket-holding-flange and, reversely folded spring members one of termediate thumb-slot extending amass Y which has its rear or folded portion taking under said ticket-holding-flange.

' 2. A ticket-holder, com rising a casing having a bottom provide terminating in inwardlyextending reinforced ticket-retaining-strips leaving an inthroughout the entire length of said. casing and an end wall aflording a; ticket delivery slotopening at the ends ofsaid ticket-retainingstrips, and a ticket-supply-holdiiag and feeding-spring removably-mountedin said .cas-

ing-and comprising a bottom portion provided'with an end wall forming the rear wall of said casing and terminatin ina' tickethold-ing-fiange, and reverselyolded s ringmembers one of which hasits-marginai with side-walls sides and rear'or foldedportion taking under said '3. A ticket-holder, comprising aholderwith said rear wall, one of said members having its rear portion adapted to take under said t1cket-holding fiange with its free end terminating near said ticket-delivery-opentestimony whereof I have affixed my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

IRA 'E. STUMP.

V Witnesses:

O. O. BILLMAN, F. J. BILLMAN. 

